From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7vEm-0003yD-An for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:14:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FE9BE0B06; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:14:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15928E0B06 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:14:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so247214yxe.32 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=RVVzRMKXMzXGm1TWb8a1TEiZu4pbmf3u0fJ7SU+Zzx4=; b=QSwDeXFvUa8UuupC4fOuB9wijywoGof0dsqdhewZ6EmicZumYY7prirJItEHlcYm1A f30MbrTkaaT76KVMlXZWg03nlNII7939t0QdCl4xz1d5woHN6coyy5sdE68lpNve0EYC zq52KIecyHpuAu6z9vDzLQVdrNzD/mtq/hBjg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mUdaAiMtvGrrxRRcRSVzfVaP2yNSO04vMLVFuuUk3S8x+q0AhQmJzVAnyH5LFBzGCU ljjQlFMBmqdOvAzrpESJDdl/1M5z+gGNCgI7pfI3m4GYY0nf/1hKJNeB9c+tLkqA6svL cBYfSRwASTwV66/wqFHdZHKY3azoTFMVMwf6k= Received: by 10.101.32.17 with SMTP id k17mr676153anj.136.1257876876906; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-116-142.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.116.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm457298yxg.48.2009.11.10.10.14.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AF9AD89.1060601@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:14:33 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world References: <445a8b100911100631h326a2ff6o46c00dff78f9f34@mail.gmail.com> <200911101611.48772.wonko@wonkology.org> <4AF98718.3040104@gmail.com> <200911101706.44057.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <200911101706.44057.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6f9f247f-fdfd-4c40-94af-2be05b5aa85e X-Archives-Hash: be6acff6f56c3353b6d4e379c49518bc Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > > >> Alex Schuster wrote: >> > > >>> I just unmerged device-mapper and updated lvm2 right after that. So >>> in case of a crash or something during a longer world update I still >>> have an intact system. I'm not sure if it would boot with the old >>> lvm2 and without device-mapper, probably yes, but I did not want to >>> take any risk. >>> >>> Um, shouldn't the new portage have dealt auto-magically with this >>> blocker? >>> > > >> Here's something more interesting, I don't need or use lvm. >> > > You do, when you need the device-mapper features. They have been moved > into the lvm2 package. > > >> I was >> trying to track it down with equery but I was getting drunk going in >> circles. >> >> I also assume that is why portage can't figure out a way to handle >> this. It got drunk too. After a while a drunk just falls down. lol >> >> Thought about using the -et options with emerge to figure this out. >> > > I'd just try to emerge lvm2 and see what happens. It's not a big package. > Man, I use LVM on all of my systems, I really like it. > > Wonko > > I'm not even sure I need device-mapper. I may just uninstall all the stuff and reboot. I can always chroot in and fix it. If it runs fine then I can see what pulled it in and if I can get rid of that as well. It's a thought. Dale :-) :-)